Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to an unidentified Reverend, ca. 1850.

BIB_ID
346682
Accession number
MA 367.29
Creator
McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1873.
Display Date
ca. 1850.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20 cm
Notes
Date is based on a reference in the letter to the Kenyon catalog for 1850.
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Noting that the Standing Committee has deferred action on Dr. Pattison's application; mentioning that he is in the 1850 [Kenyon] catalogue for a class he was not planning to teach; discussing a letter from Bishop [George] Burgess.